“Ah.No need to say more.”
Alobaz forced a smile.“There never is with that one.”
“I keep thinking he’ll run out of dragonshit to spew.But then it never happens.The shit he says just keeps getting crazier.”
Alobaz palmed Moncho across his broad back.“I think we’re better off accepting that Lev’ll never change.”
Moncho shrugged.“Lev will be Lev, huh?”
“Yep.”
“You here to see the sängmortarán?”
Alobaz was on his way to frowning but caught himself.His friends insisted on calling his prisoner by the name of the most venomous spider in all the Opalese—when they weren’t calling her a cunt or another name like it.
“I am.”
“I’ll come in with you, then.I haven’t checked on her since this morning.”
“No, not today.I want to go in alone, change things up.See if I get different answers.Or any useful answers, for that matter.”
Moncho looked back at him with slightly arched brows.
“I’m your general, you know,” Alobaz said.“Not that any of you act like it.You guys need to stop giving me all the looks.”
“What looks?”
“You’re giving me one right now and you damn well know it.Like I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing.Like I’m some soft, fluffy bunny who’s gonna go in, lie down, and offer up my belly to her.”
Moncho snorted.“Now that’s an image.She wouldn’t be able to focus on your ‘belly’ with that beast you got hanging between your legs.That woman looks like she knows exactly what to do with a dick like yours.”
Alobaz rolled his eyes.
Moncho tipped his head.“Just ’cause she wants you dead doesn’t make her blind, you know.I’m man enough to admit you’re a right pretty fucker.”
“Pretty,” Alobaz scoffed.“Well, you can rest easy knowing I’m not going to be showing her my dick.”Contrary to his assertion, Alobaz’s dick stirred at the notion.“Today or any day.”
When Alobaz found himself hoping that too was a lie, he gritted his teeth.If he thought he could shake out these idiotic thoughts about her, he’d saw open his own damn skull, upend himself, and rattle every last one out.
“You sure about that?”Moncho asked.
“Of course I am,” Alobaz snapped.“Who the fuck do you take me for?”
A moronic fool who was secretly getting turned on by the very woman who gave her all to hacking his heart out of his chest?
No, certainly not him.Surely the legendary General Alobaz Hawxley damn well knew better.
“Hm,” Moncho said.
“You guys better watch yourselves or I’m gonna start taking offense.You’ve never doubted me like this before.”
“You’ve never looked at a woman like you do her before.”
“That’s nonsense, and you fucking know it.”The lies were coming so easily today.
“I hope it is,” Moncho said.
“Well, it is.You fuck off with all this suspecting everything I do, and pass the word on.Next one who calls me out or gives me one of those looks like you’ve all been doing recently, I’m gonna take it personally.”
